Overcoming Through the Power In Christ

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Month: March 2017

The Best Pathway

March 14, 2017 /

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I have meditated on Psalm 32:8 for the past few months. Noticed I said months, I’m stubborn.

David in Psalm 32 is confessing his sins. He rejoices in forgiveness. He then acknowledges that God will direct his path for life.

I have let bitterness and pride seep in. My plan was better. How arrogant of me. I do not understand God and his ways. Frankly to serve a God that I understand wouldn’t be much of a God.

That doesn’t mean there isn’t wrestling. I’m just tired of being, Jacob. (Genesis 32)

I want to take comfort that I serve an all knowing God who is good, when all I see from an earthly perspective is bad.

I don’t want to be the stubborn mule unwilling to follow, even if sometimes that means one foot, one step, one breath at a time.

God never promised easy. He did promise to love and cleave to us.

I am never alone.

Today I rejoice in the pathway before me. I am looking for what God would have me learn from it. I want God’s plan not mine, my perspective is so small.

I want to trust in him.

Amen

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Humbled

March 7, 2017 /

If you are like me, self-esteem doesn’t come easy. I try my best in life but often feel like I fall short. God really convicted me today.

I’m the apple of his eye. He knows me and loves me. I am worthy.

I promised God through a weak prayer to try.

I want to try to  accept these truths for me.

I can see the value in others easily.

After I accepted Christ as my savior, I saw all people as souls either lost or saved.

I’m saved.

I’m his.

I was and am  pursued.

I am a daughter of the king.

And I look at myself as less than.

I replay words that have been said.

You are not enough.

You are unlovable.

You should be a better .

You are dirty.

 

Dear friend if this is you as well.

Stop it!

Fix your eyes on the King, know your place. You have value. You are his. God loves you.

I want God’s love to permeate every  insecurity that I have. I want to be more in Christ to love others the way Christ loves me.

Today I choose grace. I choose to be humble before God. I choose to lay down the worthless negative words that have been spoken over me. I refuse to wear those labels any longer. I choose to live life abundantly. I hope you will as well.

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